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that Mannour is divided & we shall as soon as we get the
Platts &c of the other Mannours fix certain Days & by Adver-
tisements notify the Sale of them after the same manner. As
your Ldp hath been now pleased to send us precise & explicit
Instruction for our Guidance in this Affair we shall I doubt
not execute the Commission with Dispatch & I hope to your
Ldp's Satisfaction. I know not what Expectations Mr Calvert
might have entertained of Colo Lloyds Compliance with your
Ldp's Instructions of the 8th Oct 1761 & other your Ldp's
Requisitions from time to time communicated to him but I
am sure I have in a great many of my Letters represented as
I thought was my Duty the Backwardness Colo Lloyd shew'd
to come hither to transact any Business whatever & I can with
truth say that since I have had the honour to serve your Ldp
the Trouble I have taken to make the Agent discharge his
Duty punctually & diligently hath exceeded any other Trouble
I have had & that the ill Success of my Endeavaurs. hath often
given me great Uneasiness but if Colo Lloyd will submit &
agree to pursue for the future such a Plan as we shall point
out & prescribe I hope your Ldp's pecuniary Affairs here will
be transacted with Ease to the Agent & to your Ldps Satis-
faction. In my Letter of the 15th Inst I informed your Ldp
that in pursuance of the Councils Advice I had permitted the
Assembly to meet the 8th Inst since which time the two Houses
have pass't the several Bills of which I shall transmit a List &
as I apprehended none of them would be disapproved of by
your Ldp I assented thereto last Tuesday Evening & at the
Instance of the Lower House at the same time put an End to
the Session. During the Course of the Session the Lower
House prepared & sent to the Upper a Bill for Lycencing
Hawkers & Pedlars & another for Lycencing & Regulating
Ordinaries or Publick Innholders by which Bills the Lycence
Fines & the Forfeitures were appropriated to the use of the
respective Counties, the Hawkers Bill was returned with this
simple Amendment that the Lycence Money should be paid
to the Treasurers & be Subject to the Disposal of the General
Assembly, nevertheless the Lower House drop't it upon this
principle that the Upper should not be allowed to amend a
Money Bill. When I found that the Upper House intended,
to return the Ordinary Lycence Bill with the same simple
Amendment & understood that they were unanimously of
Opinion that your Ldp's Claim to the sole & exclusive Right
of Lycencing Ordinaries could not be supported I thought it
my Duty to lay before them the Instruction you were pleased
to send me the 7th Febry 1765 expressly on that Subject, but
your Ldp will see by the Address & Report which I shall
herewith transmit to your Ldp that they did not consider the
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